An empire goes into a country and keeps it. That has never been America.
Oh yes, America had an imperialist phase as well. When the settlers arrived in America, they took all the land, and proceeded to try to kill off all the native people. Then, they imported people from Africa to serve as slaves. Thank god this was stopped a couple of centuries in, but there's no denying that America was an imperialist country too, once.
Of course, there's no need to be imperialist now, since you have all the land that you need.
There's still the question if the USA just wants to get control over Afghanistan and Iraq to get their hands on raw materials (esp. oil).
The Bush regime gave Halliburton lucrative contracts in the region, without following government contract procedure ...
So there's reason to believe, that at least the Bush regime had imperialist interests in the Middle East.
Yes were so bad we helped millions living in terror and stopped the torture and rape rooms.
Then you went ahead and built Guantanamo Bay explicitly for the purpose of torturing people, away from US soil. People were abducted and flown in from all over the world to be tortured.
As a result of the instability in Iraq, probably over a million people already died. We'll see for sure when there's a stable government and the first census.
But still, people in Iraq probably welcome the change, b/c it's better than the Saddam regime ... at least, once there's a proper government in place.
And why Iraq? There's still many dictatorships in Africa left undisturbed. Must've been the oil thing.
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If you believe we deserved it if a nuke went off you are no better then the terrorists.
You mean like those bombs the US threw on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? That killed millions? (Immediately or later on by residue radiation)